Lend Lease continues with construction at our Early years International School in Singapore. The ground floor slab is being poured and the concrete cores are up to level 2.
Auf Wiedersehen Holm!
After nearly 4 years together, and there from the very beginning of Bogle Architects, we say ‘ auf wiedersehen ’ to our colleague and friend, Holm Bethge.
Ian Bogle said,
"We’ve worked together for nearly 12 years and it’s with sadness that our collaborations have ended. I have many fond memories of our time and adventures together, and on behalf of all at Bogle Architects we wish you a great new life in Germany with your family. Who knows, we may even compete against each other at some point in the future …which would be an interesting situation! Take care, and keep well."
No.8@Arup
Bogle Architects spent a busy day at Arup’s headquarters in London this week, presenting our shortlisted design for the No.8 @ Arup competition.
Each of the seven shortlisted designs responded to the brief to ‘design a staircase installation that will bring joy and delight to its users’.
Our design serves to unleash the user’s inner child by exploring all of the sensory possibilities of the everyday chore of vertical circulation. Moving from one floor of the building to another will become a fun, social spectacle, awakening all of the senses.
We proposed a prototype of our design that would connect level 2 of Arup’s HQ to the ground floor level.
The extended version of this prototype would consist of a pair of slides that twist through the atrium, linking level 5 to level 2, and level 2 to the ground floor. A social area, including a library and café, sits at the level 2 interchange.
The slides are made of glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) – a translucent material that allows light to diffuse through the sculpture. LED rings illuminated by sensors will follow riders down the slide, creating a visual spectacle within the building’s atrium.
For more details, watch our design process video.
Prague 5
Viktorie Souckova presented two of our projects at ‘Podnikatel a Zivnostnik roku 2015 Prahy 5’ (Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 at Prague 5)
The event took place on Thursday the 21st January 2016 at Staropramen Visitor’s Centre, and was attended by 150 guests.
The projects presented were both administration buildings: Smichov Plzenska a Smichov Kovaku.
We were invited to present at the event by MUDr. Radek Klíma, the Mayor of Prague 5 and Mgr. Jan Smetana, Deputy Mayor of Prague 5, and the person presponsible for Trade and Investment.
No.8@Arup
Our entry for the No. 8 @Arup competition has been shortlisted along with five other designs.
The competition is to design an installation for Arup's UK head office at 8 Fitzroy Street in London. This year's brief was to design a stairway installation that connects all/some of the building's seven floors, including the basement. The desired outcomes of the winning installation are to bring joy and delight to users, and to support their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.
We will be presenting our idea at Arup's HQ in the week commencing 26 January 2016, and share the design on our website soon after!
Wan Awards
Ian Bogle spent a morning this week discussing shortlisted projects for the World Architecture News Future Projects Awards. Along with a group of his peers, Ian chose a shortlist and winner for the Civic Buildings category, which will be announced in February 2016.
Bogle Architects wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Read the latest interview with our director Ian Bogle as he speaks about the Future on Environmental Design with SIOR Professional Report magazine.
Merry Christmas from Bogle Architects
It’s been another interesting year…
Our first major project completion – ELI Beamlines
Five other major projects under construction
Publication of our first book – ‘Focus’ and shortlisted for three awards in 2016
We look forward to catching up with you in 2016
Construction progress at 'UNIQ' Staromestska, Bratislava
Construction progress at our Staromestska development in Bratislava. Superstructure works have now started with the RC concrete frame now at Basement -1.
Bogle Architects will be at the event to talk about 3D Printing in Architecture
Ian Bogle to give a talk at the Czech Technical University of Prague on Educational and Research buildings.
He will discuss the Practice’s current work in the global education sector highlighting the challenges and opportunities of responding to modern learning methods.
140 Fenchurch Street shortlisted for Surface Design Award
Bogle Architects' 140 Fenchurch Street has been shortlisted for a Surface Design Award, in the Commercial Interior Surface category.
The winners will be announced on Thursday 11th February 2016 at a ceremony taking place at Surface Design Show in the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.
Good progress on site with our International Early Years Facility in Singapore.
Good progress on site with our International Early Years Facility in Singapore.
Laura Encinas @ “The Cass”
Laura Encinas has recently joined “The Cass” at the London Metropolitan University as Lecturer for the BA Interior Design Course, taking part in the Studio Design & Research Development Module for first year students.
Grand opening of ELI Beamlines in Prague
Monday 19th October marked the grand opening of our ELI Beamlines project, in Dolní Břežany, Prague.
Designed by Bogle Architects, ELI Beamlines will be important in terms of the advancement of laser research, specifically in the field of cancer treatments. The facility houses lasers with intensities 10 times higher than those currently achievable, and will work towards the development of full-optical hadron therapy facilities for cancer diagnosis and therapy.
An overview of the scientific elements of the projectcan be found here.
Photos of the project and the grand opening can be downloaded here.
The ELI Beamlines facility will develop a high-energy, high repetition-rate laser providing pulses from four laser systems. To meet the requirement for high repetition rates, three of these lasers will employ state of the art technologies of diode-pumped solid state lasers (DPSSL) for driving broadband amplifiers. The fourth, multi-kilojoule laser will use a newly developed flash lamp technology with an actively cooled gain medium.
Bogle Architects inspiring young generation at the Czech Architecture Week
As part of “Czech Architecture Week – Playful Architect”, Viktorie Součková and Barbora Markechová were asked to lead 2 workshops for classes of 35 10-year-old motivated pupils from Kroměříž (CZ) and Žilina (SK).
Both workshops took place at the Plecnik’s Lookout of Prague Castle and have become a successful playful construction site where young future architects have a chance to design, draw and build their own place to live.
"This year 14 schools from Czech cities participated in the project. Participation for the event came from children f
rom 18 other countries around the world including Brazil, Morocco, Peru, Italy, Canary Islands and many more. Over 1200 children took part in the project globally !"
Bogle Architects publishes Focus.
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Focus...
Our book will soon be available to purchase in our online store!
Tomas Slovik visits International early years school site in Singapore
Our Tomas Slovik visits the International Early Years school site in Singapore.
Piling is now complete and excavation works has commenced!
